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If you like to work on the interactive version or to print a pdf. of the crossword, click on this LINK. It takes you to Antony Lewis’s Crossword Compiler website.

Highlighted clues are related to the two unclued lights (the thematic event).

Across

 1  Aim of thematic event or? (4)

 3  Could Ali unusually become head of state? (8)

 9  Rare one in a whirl, one who ventilates (5)

10  Sport to talk about interminably (6)

12  Milk product – a thing of excellent quality (6)

14  Splitting up losing identity in part of thematic event (6)

17  Moral error returning after net is twisted in this part of thematic event (6)

19  Unhappy roles for one who doesn’t win 1ac. (5)

22  We fit lighting, unusually for this part of thematic event (6-7)

23  Kind of tardily a 24-hour period of court appearance for Shakespeare … (5-3)

24  … a court hearing of yore, unfortunately (4)

Down

 1  Type of divination involved in cagy omen (8)

2  Place queen in bed (5)

4  A cedar growing wild in a walkway with arches over it (6)

5  Remove airy substance from French artist (5)

6  Light heart of flukier fish (7)

7  Expel body of jousters (4)

8  Fits of bad temper rejected in thematic event (6)

11  Seaweed – traditional Hindu piece raised twice (4-4)

13  Retired professors, for example, that is in retrospect holding worth (7)

15  Part of bill of fair in bad circumstances (6, 2 words)

16  In a panic all spy jumping plant louse (6)

18  Nothing around Hawaii, nothing! (5)

20 Troublesome type of lobster (5)

21  Raising leather strap hit smartly (4)

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